LITTLE ROCK — More than 48,000 Arkansans have lost or are on the verge of losing coverage under the private option or traditional Medicaid — the vast majority of them because they did not respond quickly to a mailed notice, a development some officials have called surprising and troubling.

LITTLE ROCK — The governor’s task force on the Common Core State Standards recommended Thursday that Arkansas keep Common Core for now but said Gov. Asa Hutchinson should order a comprehensive review of the standards with the goal of revising and replacing them as needed.

LITTLE ROCK — A proposed settlement in a lawsuit over a 2013 oil spill in Mayflower is fair, adequate, reasonable and consistent with the Clean Water Act, the U.S. Justice Department argued in a filing Wednesday in federal court in Little Rock.